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Weekend Prep Roundup: Five East County wrestlers reach finals at Vashon

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WRESTLING

Vashon Island Invitational

VASHON — Montesano made the most of its one championship finalist, while Elma had four wrestlers in the championshi finals, during an extremely competitive Vashon Island Invitational on Saturday.

Montesano’s Jacob Ellefson and Elma’s Brek McGaughy won titles, with the Bulldogs grabbing eighth place overall and the Eagles 10th overall. Forks won the team championship.

An all-Elma final in the 220-pound final guaranteed one Elma champion — Brek McGaughy decisioned teammate Austin Carrell, 4-3.

Elma’s Tanner Sample, in the 132 final, and Tyson Dick, in the 145 final, took second overall. Sample lost to Kelso’s Tyler Wicken by major decision, 10-0. Dick lost to Zillah’s Diego Herandnez, 10-7, in their match.

Austin Cristelli finished the Elma placers with a third-place finish at 152 pounds, a 2-1 win over Zillah’s Christian Francisco.

“The tournament competition was the toughest it has been in years,” Elma head coach Jason Dick said. “I thought our guys wrestled hard, but I thought we could have gotten a few more placers. The guys wrestling in the finals wrestled really well against some really tough kids.”

Montesano had four other placers in the tournament — two thirds and two fifths.

“All five kids wrestled well and wrestled a lot of matches today,” Montesano head coach Jeff Klinger, who was home with the flu, said. “We are excited for them to have those kind of results at a really good tournament.”

North Mason Invitational

BELFAIR — Aberdeen finished up Saturday’s North Mason Invitational with five third-place finishers and a sixth-place finish as a team.

Aberdeen did not land a wrestler in the finals and came away with a sixth-place finish out of 17 teams.

“I’m happy with their performances,” AHS head coach Chuck Veloni said. “Kolby Shelton and Kaleb Levao, first-year senior wrestlers, both did extremely well and have wrestled much better than anticipated.”

“We gave up 15 offensive rebounds and lose by five, that was the game,” Viking coach John Peterson said. “That and they shot 8-of-14 in the first quarter. I was proud of how hard we played, especially in the second half. But you’ve got to rebound.”

Down by 10 with about five minutes remaining, the Vikings (6-2) cut the margin to two at 49-47 with 2:20 remaining. Pe Ell, however, converted a pair of offensive rebounds to settle the issue.

Willapa Valley standout Matt Konigsberger missed his second straight contest with an infected knee. His status for Friday’s Pacific League crucial at North Beach remains in doubt.

Each team in the boys portion of the Pearson tournament finished with 1-1 records (all pairings were pre-determined). The Vikings, if they so chose, could claim the unofficial championship on the basis of point differential.

TENINO — Kevin Boogerd’s 25 points led hot-shooting Northwest Christian past Wishkah on the final day of the Tenino Christmas Tournament on Saturday.

Boogerd knocked down seven 3-point shots as the Navigators led from the outset.

Despite 22 points from Brady Anderson, the Loggers (6-3) were unable to duplicate their inspired performance in upending Class 1A Tenino on Friday.

“We’ve played four back-to-back (games) this year and it just caught up to us,” Wishkah coach Matt Ferrier said. “We did some good things, we did some bad things, but at the same time we played with a lack of energy. We were fatigued.

“This was the first time we have been challenged in awhile,” said Valley head coach Matt Bannish. “It was good for us. We would get the lead and they would make a run at us. It was a game of streaks. We fought through foul trouble and we faced the adversity well.”

Bannish praised Karli Friese for her solid game and Harden for playing well.

AMANDA PARK — A cold shooting night for Lake Quinault was compounded by a rough third quarter that allowed visiting Naselle to win this non-league game on Saturday night. The Comets owned a 17-11 halftime lead and expanded it with a 13-7 third quarter against the Elks (2-5).

“We played good defense, but played flat on offense. We had the same number of shots (as Naselle), but we were off. We couldn’t hit from outside and couldn’t pound it inside.,” said Quinault assistant coach Jon Neeland.

Hannah Allen led Quinault with six points and Romenita Begay pulled down nine rebounds ans swatted three blocks.

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